The Rice Thresher (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 67, No. 31, Ed. 1 Thursday, April 10, 1980 Page: 6 of 16
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Foss election may be contested
by Michael Trachtenberg
As a result of a ruling by the SA
Senate at its Monday meeting,
students may contest the election
of Norby Foss as fifth-year Honor
Council representative until 11 pm
tonight.
In allowing Foss* election to be
contested, the Senate overruled
President Tim Stout's declaration
last week that the election results
were final. The action was
prompted by another fifth-year
student, Chuck Nicholson, who
has claimed that he received faulty
information from Elections
Chairman Bruce Davies which
kept him from running as a
candidate in the election.
Nicholson, SA Senator Ken
Klein told the Senate, was
informed that he was not eligible to
run for the fifth-year seat due to his
standing as a fifth-year engineer.
However, Foss, who is in the same
program as Nicholson, was
correctly told that he could run for
the Honor Council spot. "In the
interests of fairness," as one
Senator put it, the Senate decided
that Nicholson should have the
opportunity to have his case
officially considered if he so
chooses.
Campus Police Chief Harold
Rhodes met with the Senate to
explain changes in key security
following a Campo gaffe last
month in which Rhodes gave staff
parking stickers to two students in
return for a Campo's master key
set they had found.
(The students' stickers were later
taken away by Proctor E. C. Holt.
Campus Police refused to
comment on the episode.)
In response to Senators'
complaints that officers spent too
much time and energy faithfully
ticketing cars, Rhodes declared
that officers dislike the assignment
greatly.
"Ticketing is a pain in the neck,"
Rhodes said.
The possibility of having
Campos become college associates
will be left open to individual
officers if they desire the position.
A discussed drive to make all
officers associates will not be
mounted, because some Campos
feel a college associateship may
force them to sacrifice personal
integrity in making judgments for
or against members of that
particular college, according to
Rhodes.
In other business, David Brent
was appointed Senior Honor
Council Representative, Students
for Reagan was approved as an
official organization, joining
Students for Anderson and Rice
Youth for Bush. An election
chairman to succeed Bruce Davies
will be selected by the college
elections chairmen, Senators
learned.
Positions on the University
Review Board, ROTC and Safety
committees, as well as a
freshman/sophomore seat on the
Campus Store Board, are still
open. Applications are due in the
SA office by Friday at 5 pm.
Brelsford defends new
Coursebook format
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traditional "blue book," a tabloid
"Course Offerings" schedule, has
run into criticism because it does
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Sydney M. Lamb, an
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Linguistics and Anthropology for
the fall semester 1980. Dr. James
Copeland, chairman of the
Linguistics department, announc-
ed the appointment and also
outlined plans for two linguistics
conferences to be held at Rice in
the coming year.
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open to all Rice students.
August 11-15 Rice will host the
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conference, the annual meeting of
linguistics societies of Canada and
the United States. Participants
from 22 countries are expected,
Copeland said.
The conference will feature a
wide range of subject matters and
the Rice community is encouraged
to attend, added Copeland.
Copeland also announced plans
for a symposium on language,
culture and cognition to take place
sometime in the spring of 1981.
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minor decision, but we trust that
the administration would seek
student opinion on major changes
in campus appearance. We feel
that this trust has been violated
and want to publicly express our
dismay."
Says Lopez, "That's all we're
asking — to be asked."
Meanwhile, the $50,000 Quad
renovation project is continuing.
When finished, the new design
will include U-shaped yupon bush
hedges, two raised flower beds,
and 16 live oak trees to hide
Fondren Library's facade.
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not include descriptions of the
courses.
"The single basic disadvantage
of this schedule is that there's less
information about courses
available," according to Registrar
John Brelsford, but he feels that
course information in the two-year
General Announcement and
departmental handouts will
suffice.
The new schedules were created
for two reasons, according to
Brelsford: cost, and quantity
available.
"It saved us a lot Brelsford
said of the new spring list,"at least
$8,000, including production
costs."
"We were limited with the blue
book by the number of copies we'd
have had available," Brelsford
added. "We've been able to put out
only 5,000 blue books because they
were quite expensive. We put out
25,000 of the new schedules. Also,
the project was linked to
computerization."
The entire list of courses has
been typed into computer discs
and can be revised electronically.
"This gives us much later datelines-
-two months later—resulting in a
much more accurate book,"
Brelsford stressed. Brelsford also
emphasized that the addenda to
the schedule would appear in the
same form as before.
In addition, use of a
computerized newsprint system
saves staff time. In his zeal to save
time and money, Brelsford even
undertook the typing of the initial
coursebook himself, renting a
computer terminal and working
out of his home. His wife and he
did all of the coursebook page
paste-up, Brelsford added,
completing the project in three
weeks.
"I wanted to do it as cheaply as
I could and to free people's time in
the Registrar's Office,' said
Brelsford. "Now we're better
caught up and can do better at
student services, which is, after all,
our primary service to the
University."
Brelsford said that "if students
tell me that we really need the
course descriptions" he could enter
the information into the compuiter
storage files. "This would increase
the size and expense of the guides
though," he said.
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Muller, Matthew. The Rice Thresher (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 67, No. 31, Ed. 1 Thursday, April 10, 1980, newspaper, April 10, 1980; Houston, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth245438/m1/6/: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Rice University Woodson Research Center.